Suspected shooter arrested in Grantville

San Diego  SWAT officers surrounded a Grantville apartment Saturday night and arrested a man suspected of randomly firing rounds into his walls and out his window. No victims were wounded.

Several residents in the Mission Arbor Apartments on Vandever Avenue east of Mission Gorge Road reported about 9:40 p.m. that a man in one unit was shooting a gun, and there was a sound of glass breaking, San Diego police said.

Officers headed that way and one officer radioed that he heard a round fired at the complex. An officer then said he saw a man leaning out an open, second-story window, covered in blood and a pistol in one hand.

Police at the scene immediately asked for SWAT teams. About three dozen police cars, along with armored SWAT vehicles, filled the streets and two nearby strip mall parking lots.

A police helicopter crew used a public address system to warn residents in the complex to stay indoors. Lt. Paul Rorrison said it was safer than trying to escort them away while the gunman was still in his apartment.

The man was naked when he opened and closed his door several times, then came out with some clothing on and surrendered about 10:30 p.m. Rorrison said it appears the man was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and may have some mental disability. He was taken to a hospital for treatment of self-inflicted, minor slashing wounds to his legs, then he was to be booked into jail.

Rorrison said the suspected gunman’s two roommates, a man and his girlfriend, also came out of the apartment, unharmed.

Another tenant was briefly handcuffed and questioned when he came outside carrying a paintball pistol. He had heard the shots, Rorrison said, and wanted to protect his family.

SWAT officers searched other apartments and found no other suspects and no victims. Rorrison said detectives would be examining the gunman’s apartment, in part to find out where the rounds went after he fired into his walls.